The first training session I attended was presented by Charles Culp, who is very well known at the SolidWorks Forums.  Charles was introducing all of us to a series of useful surfacing techniques, including how to convert a solid body into a surface body, fix some geometry, and then turn it back into a solid, the proper use of Delete Face and Delete Hole, the advantages of using Replace Face, an...

The weekend seemed very short and I apologize for not putting this up earlier, like I said I would, but I wanted to spend time with my husband, who had just come back from a long trip to Japan, and celebrate both our birthdays while he was here for a couple of days before he had to go back to Japan for a trade show.  Every year is the same: he’s travelling during the week of his birthday, by th...

Hey! It’s been quite some time since I updated this blog. I’ve been engrossed in a refresher of Chemistry and Materials Science, in hopes of better understanding about manufacturing processes of plastic products. Back in the day, I used to love Chemistry, and I think I wasn’t so bad at it, although some people may disagree with me, all because of a one-time tiny accident that left the lab st...

I must confess that the arms were quite a challenge for me.  My result is not perfect, I know, but I think it’s close enough.  Not so bad for a beginner, at least? Anyway, I had tried doing a surface sweep, but it didn’t look good, so I went with more lofts.  I started by creating some more geometry (What a surprise!).  I sketched a spline on the Top plane, following the silhouette of the ...

In this second part of my blog post I’ll show you how I worked the funkey’s feet. The feet were made in a very similar way to the body, with lofted surfaces, but I didn’t use Fill Surface to create a patch in this case, just the lofted surface. First of all, I created a plane that was parallel to the Right plane and used it to trim the bottom of the body, using the Trim Surface command with ...

When you’re on the road with a dog, one thing you learn pretty quickly is that your choices for food are limited because most places won’t allow dogs inside, not even little lap dogs.  I think we must’ve visited every single fast food place along I-70 on the way to Ohio and every single one along I-80 on the way back. Too much junk food!  Master Andrew seemed pleased, however, since he man...

Hey everyone, I’m sorry I’ve been out of action for a whole week! I somehow managed to first hurt my rib cage merely by coughing,  and then, just in case that wasn’t enough,  poison myself with the very medications they gave me at the urgent care clinic to help me “feel better”.  Hmmm…  Anyway, I’ve been doing some light reading on how to model using surfaces in SolidWorks, just ...

It’s amazing how sidetracked one can get! Quite a few months ago, I was very excited about the new SolidWorks Surfacing book that had just come out and adamant to go through it as soon as possible. However, as time went by, I got distracted with other things:  spent some time preparing for the CSWP test, got bitten by the rendering bug, and discovered a fascination for Sheet Metal I never knew ...